Carl Filpo

Engineering consulting firms working across mining, oil and gas, and civil projects operate in high-stakes, data-intensive environments.

Workshop management systems, inventory platforms, parts supply chains, remanufacturing workflows, and field service coordination are not back-office functions. They are operational. When systems fail, contracts are at risk, assets sit idle, and margin disappears fast. Businesses like pump specialists, remanufacturers, and engineering product suppliers cannot afford IT that is unreliable, unsupported, or unable to recover quickly from a cyber incident.

Lead times miss project timelines. Licenses are purchased incorrectly and cannot be refunded. Hardware arrives that does not integrate cleanly with the existing environment. CMTG’s procurement service removes that friction. As a Lenovo Data Centre Gold Partner with local Perth stock of end-user devices, a Cisco Select Certified Partner, a Microsoft Gold partner for licensing, and a vendor partner across Fortinet, IBM, Veeam, and the broader ecosystem, CMTG procures technology with the same knowledge that designs and manages client environments. The person recommending the hardware knows where it will sit, what it will connect to, and what it needs to do.

CMTG’s strategic consulting service goes further: it provides the senior IT leadership perspective that most organisations in the small to mid-market cannot justify as a full-time internal hire.

A firewall or an antivirus solution is a component of a security posture, not a security posture in itself. CMTG’s cybersecurity service delivers end-to-end security coverage across network infrastructure, endpoints, email, identity, and cloud environments, backed by a 24/7 Security Operations Centre staffed by CMTG’s own team.

It is only as useful as the architecture it is built on and the last time it was tested. CMTG’s Backup as a Service combines Veeam’s recovery orchestration with IBM Safeguarded Copy immutability technology to create a backup capability that goes significantly beyond what standard managed backup arrangements deliver.

MTG’s DRaaS provides automated failover between CMTG’s two geographically distinct WA data centres, orchestrated rollback when the primary site is restored, and a tested, validated recovery capability with a sub-one-hour Recovery Time Objective. The distinction between CMTG’s DR capability and a backup-and-restore arrangement is significant: DRaaS is designed for rapid, automated recovery of the entire operating environment, not manual restoration of individual files or systems.

CMTG’s DaaS platform is powered by Citrix for the virtualisation and delivery layer and backed by NVIDIA L4 and L40 GPUs for compute-intensive workloads. The result is a virtual desktop environment that outperforms most physical workstations, runs consistently under load, and can be accessed securely from any device.

CMTG’s private cloud hosting is fundamentally different. It is dedicated compute, storage, and networking within CMTG’s own sovereign platform, hosted across two enterprise-grade data centres in Western Australia connected by private dark fibre.

Without reliable, secure connectivity, cloud services lag, remote workers struggle, security controls cannot be enforced consistently, and the performance of every system the business depends on is degraded. CMTG designs, deploys, and manages network environments for organisations of all sizes, from single-site businesses that need properly designed and secured local infrastructure to multi-site operations requiring private connectivity between locations.